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This document makes use of several variables to address paths in a generic, but distinct way. They are not meant to be used via shell, but for human parsing. No program of the x2go suite actually uses them for anything. You may “set” them to whatever value you want to (in your head), just don't change them half-way through the building process. The “default value” is merely a suggestion.

Prepare $X2GO_BASE_DIR if need be.

# mkdir -p "$X2GO_BASE_DIR"
# cd "$X2GO_BASE_DIR"

Fetch the x2goclient sources.

# git clone git://code.x2go.org/x2goclient.git x2goclient-git

Prepare the dependencies directories.

# mkdir "$X2GO_DIST_SRC"
# mkdir "$X2GO_DIST_INST"

Prepare $NX_BASE_DIR.

# mkdir -p "$NX_BASE_DIR"
# cd "$NX_BASE_DIR"

Fetch the NX libraries sources.

# git clone git://code.x2go.org/nx-libs.git nx-libs-git

Prepare the dependencies directories.

# mkdir "$NX_DIST_SRC"
# mkdir "$NX_DIST_INST"

• for optional sound support: PulseAudio
• build dependencies:
  • Apple Developer SDK
  • Qt 4
  • libssh >= 0.4.7
  • libjpeg or libjpeg-turbo
  • libpng
  • nx-binaries

Qt4 is a hard dependency. You can either download and install the SDK package for Mac OS X provided by Nokia, or, if you want to redistribute/deploy x2goclient on other machines, build your own version from source.

If you decide to build from source, follow these instructions, else skip to the NX part.

Download the source package from the official Qt site (.tar.gz recommended.)

Put it into $X2GO_DIST_SRC.

Run the following commands as a regular, non-root user. You'll need the root password to install them.

1. → nxproxy has to be installed from nx-libs.git Install nxproxy from git

$ git clone git://code.x2go.org/nxproxy
$ cd nxproxy
$ autoconf 
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
$ make
$ su -c "make install"

2a. Install x2goclient from git

$ git clone git://code.x2go.org/x2goclient
$ cd x2goclient
$ export PREFIX=/usr
$ make build_client && make install_client

2b. Also build+install x2goplugin

$ make build_plugin && make install_plugin